Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixation for implantable medical devices
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Application No.: US13955393Application Date: 2013-07-31
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Publication No.: US10071243B2Publication Date: 2018-09-11
- Inventor: Jonathan L. Kuhn , Michael P Campbell , Vladimir Grubac , Kenneth D Rys , Richard W Swenson , Charles L Wilson
- Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Main IPC: A61N1/05
- IPC: A61N1/05 ; A61N1/375 ; A61N1/372

Abstract:
A tine portion of an implantable medical device includes a hook segment and a distal segment terminated by a tissue-piercing tip, wherein the distal segment extends from a distal end of the hook segment to the tip. The hook segment, which is elastically deformable from a pre-set curvature, for example, defined by a single radius, preferably tapers from a first width thereof, in proximity to a proximal end thereof, to a smaller, second width thereof, in proximity to the distal end thereof, wherein the tip has a width that is greater than the second width of the hook segment. Alternately, the tine portion may include a hook segment that is defined by two radii and a straight section extending therebetween.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150039070A1 FIXATION FOR IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES Public/Granted day:2015-02-05
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